Please help! Yosemite Install gone wrong. Macbook now = Nice paperweight

So late last week my macbook late 2011 started to play up and run slow, it had been under a lot of stress from video editing and was due a format / re-install / upgrade from mavericks to Yosemite.
I decided to do this in one simple move using instructions found online (and instructions I've used before) I backed up my data, downloaded the new OS and created a boot using bootdiskx and then formatted the HDD using the recovery partition.
Now I must of messed up somewhere, when starting the install via the USB bootdisk the progress bar pops up and then reaches around 20% and then the screen goes all grey.
I've left the machine over night to run and had no luck.
Tried 2 memory cards / usbs
re created the bootdisk
and also downloaded the OS again
If I let the device run straight from boot up I'm greeted by the apple logo and soon after blue/black lines, safemode doesn't work as there's no OS, and recovery partition is incredibly unreliable and only boots on random occurrences.
I've tried every silly keycombo I can find and nothing works!
Please help!!!!!

"macbook late 2011" ""soon after blue/black lines"
It will help us diagnose your problem to know the exact model, size, year built, RAM installed and OS you're running.
Also if it's a 15 or 17" there's a recall on those models:
Apple Recall:
https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
Run the serial number there to see if you're in the recall pool.

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2 GB RAM Upgradeable
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Okay, now I have no idea what you're talking about! pattern maker is working. Can't I just leave well enough alone?:-)Linda
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